[Glorantha] Re: Chalana Arroy failure

Andrew Joelson:

> Could it have been Arkat's Unhealable Wound?
>(Please don't tell me about Arkat living in the 1st Age,
>after the Great Darkness. The Hero Plane and the
>UnderWorld are places beyond Time. People from within
>time quest to these timeless places; anyone questing
>to the Marriage of Orlanth and Ernalda reaches the same
>event, regardless of what age they started in.)

I don't think it was Arkat's wound, but it's an interesting idea.

My theory about Arkat's wound is that it was unhealable because it became part of his nature, part of his identity. To heal him would have been to make him into something he nolonger was, or could be. I think if Chalana Arroy met him in heroquest, she might not even have realised he was wounded because the physical wound is realy a middle-world symptom of a spiritual transformation.

Frankly, I don't know enough about Chalana Arroy's mythology to be sure what the unhealable wound was. I always assumed it was chaos.

Simon Hibbs Received on Tue 04 Apr 2006 - 09:59:57 EEST